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Spain and Portugal’s immigrant and Islamic histories has been an important factor in these nations’ unique record of toleration toward their Muslim immigrant populations, according to journalist Marvine Howe in her new book Al-Andalus Rediscovered: Iberia’s New Muslims.
Marvine Howe, Al-Andalus Rediscovered: Iberia’s New Muslims, Columbia University Press / Hurst, 2012, 208 p.
Growing anti-Semitism and poor economic prospects are threatening to extinguish two Jewish communities on the North African coast. JTA – 6 October 2002 – After the expulsion from Spain in 1492, a small number of Jews escaped across the Strait of Gibraltar to two fortress cities that Spanish kings were establishing as beachheads in North Africa. […]
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